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Blindspotting

2018

Carlos López Estrada

Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar, Jasmine Cephas-Jones ...

6.2

826

Comedy Collin is trying to make it through his final days of probation for an infamous arrest he can’t wait to put behind him. Always by his side is his fast-talking childhood bestie, Miles, who has a knack for finding trouble. When Collin’s chance for a fresh start is interrupted by a life-changing missed curfew, his friendship with Miles is forced out of its comfortable buddy-comedy existence, and the Bay boys are set on a spiraling collision course with each other. [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Debruge Variety	"The most exciting cinematic take on contemporary race relations since 'Do the Right Thing' nearly 30 years ago (...) [It] captures the many forces (...) now boiling over in modern-day Oakland."
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Carlos Lopez Estrada's debut taps into potent ideas about race in America, even as it struggles to make them work."
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Vital and messy in equal measure (...) 'Blindspotting' wins no points for subtlety (...) The speechifying and manipulative plot twists are overdone (...) but the emotion behind the calculation still stings."
		Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"Its lively frequency is embedded in the writing, bolstered by Carlos López Estrada’s direction, and kept buoyant by the performers."
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"[It] puts far more on its plate than it knows how to handle (...) One consistent virtue of the film is the cinematography by Robby Baumgartner"
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A striking but frustrating film about race in a changing Oakland (...) [It] betrays instincts both realistic and fantastical, insightful and banal."
		Jesse Hassenger AV Club	"Impressive (...) Downright revelatory: It crackles to life without a surfeit of surface flash."
		Derek Smith Slant	"It takes aim at myriad targets and bluntly satirizing them in disparate styles that never mesh into a cohesive whole (...) When Blindspotting keeps things simple (...) there's a sense of purpose (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

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